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What a buyer sees

GWYNNS OPTICIANS GROUP LIMITED

Other human health activities · Pontypridd · 01305552

51staff · FY2023
49years trading
66oldest owner on file
£120kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

3.8× spread
£930k
£3.5M

You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 4 figures against 65 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff51
202254512023
Cash at bank£120k
2022£193k£120k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£29,055£51,789£189,005
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
122972
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
81339
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
723151

Each spread is companies in the same trade and size that did publish a turnover. Creditor days are shown but not marked: neither end of that one is plainly good.

What a buyer would ask 4

  • Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £930k and £3.5M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 40 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
  • No website on file against the companyThe first thing anyone does with a company number is look for the business behind it. Finding nothing is its own answer.

What a buyer would like 2

  • 49 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

  • 66since 2016
  • 49since 2016
  • 46since 2016
  • 66since 2016
  • 62since 2016

Directors

  • 62since 1993
  • since 1994
  • 49since 2011
  • 46since 2014
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-04-30not filed51£120k
2022-04-30not filed54£193k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.61.3× sales
£560k
£4.5M

The turnover range is fitted on UK companies that did file one. The multiple is a published sector average from Dutch mid-market deals, not from your own numbers and not from your own market. Treat this as the opening bracket of a conversation, not a valuation.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

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